BROKEN LAND (CAL)
CAL Sometimes, it's fun to revisit an old film from your youth. In this case, it's Pat O'Connor's sobering Northern Ireland romance 'Cal' which has been restored 41 years after it was released when the Troubles were still raging. Starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren and adapted by the author Bernard MacLaverty from his own novel, it has been restored and re-released in the UK and Ireland, thanks to Film Hub NI - a community cinema organisation. Believing it to be a significant milestone in the development of Northern Irish cinema, Film Hub NI's revival reveals it to be a surprisingly effective movie which is not without its flaws. Lynch plays Cal McCluskey, the son of Donal McCann's abattoir worker Seamie in a rural Mid Ulster town. Cal is involved in the IRA, driving Stevan Rimkus' Crilly to a local farmhouse where his colleague murders an off-duty Royal Ulster Constabulary officer and wounds the victim's elderly father. A year later, Cal com...